Interesting Idea : $1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera

[denniskee]

These days, traditional hardware shops and those DIY shops in shopping centres do not carry the imperial screw thread anymore. They have all gone metric.

You can get such 1/4" screw in those specialist screw, bolts and nuts shops along King George Ave area. Get either the Stainless Steel [304 / 18-8] or brass.

I suppose this technique is good for low light situation for short lenses up to say about 135mm or so. Longer tele lenses - big problem la :nono: - tie down the camera or tie down at the tripod collar of the lens and you get a see-saw! :bsmilie:

can still get them in diy shops, got mine for other projects from lot 1 shopping mall.

for lens up to 300mm, i use a flash bracket mounted the the vertical grip of my d60, 1vhs, 50e.
straighten the bracket to increase the length, rest it on my shoulder when shooting in landscape orientation, chest if in portrait orientation. gives about 2 stop.

when long exposure in portrait orientation, say about 4sec with fix 50mm lens on my d60, , rest the camera and the bracket ("L") on a surface, like a table top photo frame. put the camera in timer mode with "mirror lock up" enabled. hold the bracket and shoot.

the limitation with this shoulder pod (thats what i call it) is that camera has to have vertical grip. w/o the grip, the camera height will be too low for anyone to see through the view finder.

sorry, but i have deleted the photos shown in the thread that LENS has pointed in post no. 38.

 

[ArcticFox]

That's a goood idea. :thumbsup: